![[66] Writing Exercise: “In A Regretful Room”](https://i2.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20000-days-on-earth-2014-002-nick-cage-behind-desk-looking-to-camera_1000x750.jpg?fit=720%2C540&ssl=1)
Where am I? An 8x10 square room with a feeling of no air. White walls with dirt marks caused by the edge of my dirty feet mirroring an eeriness inside my mind. The bright white light blinds me for a millisecond and then I see again. A table of inferior quality stands on its four [...]
![[60] Musings from a dark silent box.](https://i1.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/image_01-1.jpg?fit=720%2C433&ssl=1)
I In a dark silent box, I'm breathless A revolt broods like lava Like a calm before the storm She moves inside the box and gives me music. II I live somewhere in between your remembrance and denial. You live somewhere in between my fragrance and a lie. We speak through shapes of clouds, the [...]
![[58] Fixation to Perfection](https://i0.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/questions-25.jpg?fit=497%2C667&ssl=1)
I have 16 drafts pending on my editing table. I have 6 stories ready for revision. I have around 18 topics that I can write on in 30 minutes and publish them here. But I don't. Because of fixation to perfection. I think that things can always get better, I can always do better than [...]
![[51] A Personal Story](https://i2.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/personal-story.jpeg?fit=720%2C540&ssl=1)
There is a sensation that I wish does not come to you. You are up, the sunlight wakes you. What is the beginning of the day feels like an end of you, to you. You try to shake these lifeless thoughts but in a blink, they have rusted and you can no longer repair them. [...]
![[49] The Stranger I Knew](https://i0.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/taxi-driver-cybill-shepherd-introduction-white-dress.gif?fit=362%2C200&ssl=1)
A picture so grey, on broken paper it remains it conjures up a time that held importance but only in the back of my mind time turned its wheels and let it drown away let it lay on the tip of the iceberg now all I can see is a blinking light in my mind, still [...]
![[46] Write Like You Talk Or Talk Like You Write?](https://i2.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/write.jpg?fit=720%2C540&ssl=1)
Write like you talk or Talk like you write? which is better? intuitive thoughts or a consciousness that exhausts the mind. Words are used to bleed the world with an implosion of confusion. Caused by a fusion of overthinking and not being able to think at all. Now if I just change the gears and [...]
![[44] Solace from the Soulless.](https://i2.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/5d8a5c58f229c848f394db1e8e8a116d.jpg?fit=640%2C958&ssl=1)
What shackles us is not the judgement of others but the perceived thought that they will judge us. We humans, a tribal community, have lived life without instantaneous connectivity almost 99% of our time on earth (if we weren't on other planets). The age we live in, the age of connectivity demands us of our interruption, [...]
![[42] Water Kills You](https://i0.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/water-story.jpg?fit=720%2C405&ssl=1)
The story is inspired by the Writing Prompt - "100% of people who drink water will die" sounds like a dumb statistic, but you are 900 years old and very thirsty. Enjoy! --------- "Dude you've got to meet this guy. He looks so... different but speaks so wise. Have you seen "The Man from Earth" where [...]
![[40] #NaPoWriMo [12/30] { Madness Bewitches Me }](https://i2.wp.com/rahulgaurblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/wp-1491139709789.png?fit=397%2C60&ssl=1)
The consumption of her crumbling madness amuses me, till the sighting of a shooting star calms my roaring laughter. She shifts. My world revolves on an axis that does not coincide with her atlas or her madness made of moulds of myopia She speaks in three, a plan to include thee Repentance mixed with madness or despondency A [...]
...in between her gaze and her stare I fell in love Just inside her lovely mind I fell in love A galaxy in her mind that expands, though To my every mistake she fumes, though Her frightened face became her freckled face Her freckled face became her frightened face To distinguish between her gaze and [...]
